The educated upper class, folks.
Looks like we’re no longer doing the bit about the hallucination machine being useless.
The assumption that solving exam is a “useful” skill. Exams are timed, unhelped, approximation of your skill to do “useful” work
Education is supposed to let students eventually do useful work, not immediately do useful work, and useful wprk should be designing and implementing a final project, not exam and quizzes.
Who doesn’t supervise an exam?
Some instructors don’t supervise grad course exams for the following reasons:
- Grad school grading is a joke anyways, everyone gets a B+ at minimum
- The content is so state of the art you won’t be able to cheat. You won’t find reasonable answers online, or on your neighbors exam
- If you’re paying full tuition for grad school and still slacking off, that’s on you personally.
My undergrad also have an honor code, this means some professor do explicitly not supervise exams. Most of these professor would sit outside in the hallway for questions.
Some would do crossword puzzle, some would play kriby on 3DS
Princeton, apparently
Wait? These people were having unsupervised exams with access to their phone and now they see that they need to do something? I mean, the numbers speak for themselves when 45% of students say they were aware of an “honor code violation” during their time as students. I was at uni for five years, and I literally don’t know about a single case of cheating on exams among my peers.
Seems to me that cheating was already rampant, they just found a new excuse to do something about it.
To be clear by the way: Our exam “supervision” literally consisted of some pensioned seniors that got paid to come in for a day to hand out exam papers, receive and archive your response, and otherwise just hang around in the exam hall so people wouldn’t feel safe just blatantly bringing notes or their phone.
Probably had open book exams
it was about letting the students collectively set their own punishments and self-govern their behavior to shut down the possibility of authoritarian abuse. anarchists have been exploring this idea for centuries
I don’t really have any big issue with the students self-regulating exam rule violations, but if it is to have any hope of working, the students would then also need to have supervisors at the exam, if only because it’s ludicrous to think that honest people that are focused on their own exam will be aware enough of their surroundings to catch others cheating, let alone call them out when they’re likely in their close social circle.
As the name implies, this was originally an “honour system”, based around individual students self-regulating based on an idea of honour. That probably worked well enough in the 1800’s and early 1900’s, but it sure as hell won’t work in a modern society that values “getting ahead at all costs” above near anything else (as the numbers show).
Agreed.
Kinda insane that they were just trusted not to cheat.
Good.
I had exam proctors in college. It’s only a problem if you spent all your time partying and didn’t do the work.
Were you an RA?
